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Enrollment
752
Middle
DISTRICT 717 · STATE 794
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PINELLAS·NCES 120156001681
SEMINOLE MIDDLE SCHOOL
8701 131ST ST, SEMINOLE, FL 33776 · (727) 547-4520 · Pinellas County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL752 STUDENTS
B
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 61% of Florida public middle schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Florida public middle schools
Student : Teacher
19.3:1
39 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 18.2:1 · STATE 19.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
41%
307 students
DISTRICT 48% · STATE 50%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 255 | 34% |
| Grade 7 | 252 | 34% |
| Grade 8 | 245 | 33% |
Student demographics
55%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 67% · STATE 70% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
63.6%
FL avg 56.7% . +5.6pp since 2023
Math
66.3%
FL avg 58.9% . -0.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 64 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 66 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are up about 6 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 63.6% | 66.3% |
| 2023-24 | 58.0% | 66.7% |
% at Level 3 or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: FAST / B.E.S.T.. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
60.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
60.7%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-0.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 60% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 61% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Florida's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like SEMINOLE MIDDLE SCHOOL
SEMINOLE MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (60.1% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| SEMINOLE MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 752 | 40.8% | 60.1% |
| MOWAT MIDDLE SCHOOL LYNN HAVEN | 803 | 43.1% | 53.2% |
| HOLLEY-NAVARRE MIDDLE SCHOOL NAVARRE | 823 | 41.4% | 70.2% |
| OSCEOLA MIDDLE SCHOOL OCALA | 866 | 38.7% | 63.6% |
| CITRUS SPRINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL CITRUS SPRINGS | 752 | 44.5% | 59.0% |
| GREEN COVE SPRINGS JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL GREEN COVE SPRINGS | 793 | 46.5% | 69.1% |
Matched among Florida middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where SEMINOLE MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Pinellas County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 60.1% | #192 of 560 | #7 of 19 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 66.3% | #187 of 560 ▼ 37 | #8 of 19 ▼ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 63.6% | #159 of 560 ▲ 2 | #6 of 19 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 752 | #330 of 584 | #11 of 21 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 19.3:1 | #278 of 547 | #14 of 20 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 55.4% | #314 of 553 | #15 of 20 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 40.8% | #403 of 565 | #15 of 20 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -34.6% | #33 of 379 | #4 of 18 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
752
-263 (-26%) vs 2020
-41% since 1990-91, when it was 1,264
Student : Teacher
19.3:1
was 20.3:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 752 | 39 | 19.3:1 | 41% (307) |
| 2023-24 | 766 | 41 | 18.7:1 | 47% (361) |
| 2022-23 | 824 | 45 | 18.3:1 | 49% (403) |
| 2020-21 | 1,015 | 50 | 20.3:1 | 41% (413) |
| 2017-18 | 1,149 | 64 | 17.9:1 | 47% (537) |
| 2015-16 | 1,124 | 63 | 17.8:1 | 45% (508) |
| 2010-11 | 1,284 | 74 | 17.4:1 | 35% (452) |
| 2000-01 | 1,233 | 55 | 22.4:1 | 15% (191) |
| 1990-91 | 1,264 | 72 | 17.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for SEMINOLE MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About SEMINOLE MIDDLE SCHOOL
Students in SEMINOLE, Florida, attend SEMINOLE MIDDLE SCHOOL, a medium-sized middle-grades school. It serves 752 students in grades 6 through 8.
PINELLAS runs SEMINOLE MIDDLE SCHOOL along with 150 other schools, enrolling 87,955 students in total.
White students account for 63% of enrollment at SEMINOLE MIDDLE SCHOOL. Other groups make up 15% Black, 13% Hispanic, and 6% multiracial. Pinellas County as a whole is about 74% White, so the school's share is lower. The chance that two students picked at random at SEMINOLE MIDDLE SCHOOL belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 55%.
SEMINOLE MIDDLE SCHOOL counts 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, about 19.3 students for each one. Middle schools in Florida average about 19.6:1, a similar figure. About 41% of enrolled students meet the income rules for free or reduced-price lunch.
allk12 grades SEMINOLE MIDDLE SCHOOL a B. The grade compares the school only with Florida public middle schools, because each state gives its own test.
SEMINOLE MIDDLE SCHOOL's actual average proficiency rate on state tests (60.1%) and its predicted rate (60.7%) put it outside the top and bottom 10% of Florida schools.
In the county around the school, Pinellas County, median household income is about $72,646, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 37% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 7%. A total of 155 public schools operate in Pinellas County, serving about 87,955 students.
The nearest other public school, SEMINOLE HIGH SCHOOL, is about 0.2 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. SEMINOLE MIDDLE SCHOOL is 6th of 9 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
By NCES locale, the school is Suburb: Large, or in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The 2024-25 enrollment of 752 was 26% lower than in 2020-21, when it was 1,015. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 20.3:1; by 2024-25 it was 19.3:1.
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Pinellas County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
963,481
Census ACS
Median income
$72,646
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
37%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
155
87,955 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in PINELLAS
- PALM HARBOR UNIVERSITY HIGHHigh · 2,413 students
- LARGO HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,058 students
- EAST LAKE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,980 students
- DIXIE M. HOLLINS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,934 students
- ST. PETERSBURG HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,736 students
- OSCEOLA FUNDAMENTAL HIGHHigh · 1,706 students
Other schools in SEMINOLE
- OSCEOLA FUNDAMENTAL HIGHHigh · 1,706 students
- SEMINOLE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,394 students
- OSCEOLA MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 933 students
- STARKEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 580 students
- RICHARD O JACOBSON TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL AT SEMINOLEHigh · 546 students
- BAUDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 530 students
Other Seminole Middle schools
2 other US public schools in 2 states are named Seminole Middle. SEMINOLE MIDDLE SCHOOL is the 2nd largest of the 3.
- SEMINOLE MIDDLE SCHOOLPLANTATION, FL · 1,014 students
- Seminole Middle SchoolSeminole, OK · 178 students
Nearby schools
- SEMINOLE HIGH SCHOOL0.2 mi · 1,394
- BAUDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.2 mi · 530
- RICHARD O JACOBSON TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL AT SEMINOLE0.3 mi · 546
- OAKHURST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.2 mi · 677
- SEMINOLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.9 mi · 371
- ANONA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.4 mi · 430
Frequently asked questions
About SEMINOLE MIDDLE SCHOOLHow large is SEMINOLE MIDDLE SCHOOL?
SEMINOLE MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 752 students in grades 06-08.
Is SEMINOLE MIDDLE SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
SEMINOLE MIDDLE SCHOOL is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many teachers does SEMINOLE MIDDLE SCHOOL have?
SEMINOLE MIDDLE SCHOOL employs 39 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 19.3:1.
What is the student diversity at SEMINOLE MIDDLE SCHOOL?
Student demographics at SEMINOLE MIDDLE SCHOOL are roughly 63% White, 13% Hispanic, 15% Black, 2% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Is SEMINOLE MIDDLE SCHOOL public or private?
SEMINOLE MIDDLE SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by PINELLAS.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.